I have a new Audigy LS, funning FreeBSD 5.4 and just installed oss 3994a. Anytime audio is playing be it from a flash presentation or from xmms, all I get is a loud hiss. If there is any sound, the hiss is drowning it out. It passes the sound test but what's coming out is a broken up hissing sound - so perhaps something is there but it's just not detectable.

vinny wrote:I have a new Audigy LS, funning FreeBSD 5.4 and just installed oss 3994a. Anytime audio is playing be it from a flash presentation or from xmms, all I get is a loud hiss. If there is any sound, the hiss is drowning it out. It passes the sound test but what's coming out is a broken up hissing sound - so perhaps something is there but it's just not detectable.

Anyone have any suggestions??

Run soundoff and soundon and see if that helps. In XMMS, configure one of the Virtual Mixer devices and see if that helps. Try this rm /dev/dsp; ln -s /dev/dsp6 /dev/dsp and then run flash or XMMS

When I run the test it starts making that noise..at least I know that all 6 speakers are working ok. When I start KDE it freezes for a moment then it continues working fine but gives me this mesasage: Sound server fatal error: CPU overload.aborting. I've configured it as it is said in README.

I've tried a *lot* of different things with this card. The FreeBSD/amd64 OSS driver makes a hiss, the i386 driver makes a hiss, the linux amd64 and i686 drivers hiss. I'm at a loss. I see a lot of people that have this problem, yet you're not willing to look into it, just "it works for me (TM)".

I have an on-board sound with motherboard P5VDC-X and am having the same problem on Ubuntu 6.06... the sound keep hissing everytime on MP3, AVI's, games, system messages... it does that ugly hiss whenever it emits sound.